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Wide of the ISS in space ++MUTE++Johnson Space Centre, Houston, Texas - 03 March 20112. NASA Mission Control Room, UPSOUND: (English) NASA Official: \"Discovery and ISS, this is Houston....\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eInternational Space Station (ISS) - 03 March 2011\u003cbr/\u003e1. Wide of the ISS in space ++MUTE++\u003cbr/\u003eJohnson Space Centre, Houston, Texas - 03 March 2011\u003cbr/\u003e2. NASA Mission Control Room, UPSOUND: (English) NASA Official: \"Discovery and ISS, this is Houston. Are you ready to talk to the White House?\"\u003cbr/\u003eInternational Space Station (ISS) - 03 March 2011\u003cbr/\u003e3. Current crews of the ISS and Discovery mission gathered before a camera to speak over the phone with US President Barack Obama. UPSOUND: (English)\u003cbr/\u003eObama (off camera): \"Hello everybody.\"\u003cbr/\u003eScott Kelly, Space Station Commander: \"Hello, Mr. President. Welcome aboard the International Space Station.\"\u003cbr/\u003e4. Wide of Discovery docked at the ISS ++MUTE++\u003cbr/\u003e5. Current crews of the ISS and Discovery mission gathered before a camera, UPSOUND: (English) Barack Obama, US President (off camera): \u003cbr/\u003e\"Look, I wanted to call and just say how personally proud I am of you and all that you're accomplishing. We are always inspired by the images of you guys at work as you put some of the final pieces in place to make ISS fully operational.\"\u003cbr/\u003e6. Wide of the ISS ++MUTE++\u003cbr/\u003e7. Current crews of the ISS and Discovery mission gathered before a camera, UPSOUND: (English) Steven Lindsey, Discovery Commander: \u003cbr/\u003e\"Well, thank you, sir. On behalf of the crew, it's a real privilege for us to get to fly Discovery on her final mission, and we were actually trying to calculate what the, now we're going to land on Wednesday, and we're calculating... we think that when we land, Discovery will have flown in space for 365 days, so for a whole year.\"\u003cbr/\u003e8. Wide shot looking down on Discovery with an open pay load bay door ++MUTE++\u003cbr/\u003e9. Current crews of the ISS and Discovery mission gathered before a camera, UPSOUND: (English) Barack Obama, US President (off camera): \u003cbr/\u003e\"Now, I understand that you guys have a new crew member, this R2 robot. So, you know, I don't know whether you guys are putting R2 to work, but he's gotten a lot of attention.\"\u003cbr/\u003e10. Earth as seen from the ISS ++MUTE++\u003cbr/\u003e11. Current crews of the ISS and Discovery mission gathered before a camera, UPSOUND: (English) \u003cbr/\u003eLindsey: \"He's still in packing foam, so we hope to get him out shortly, and it's going to be fun to see how he works.\"\u003cbr/\u003eObama (off camera): \"He's still in packing foam? That's a shame, man. Come on, guys, unpack the guy. He flew all that way, and you guys aren't unpacking him?\"\u003cbr/\u003eLindsey: \"Yeah, you know, the poor guy has been locked in that foam for about four months now, and every once in a while, we hear kind of some scratching sounds from inside, maybe a 'Let me out. Let me out.' But we're not sure.\"\u003cbr/\u003eJohnson Space Centre, Houston, Texas - 03 March 2011\u003cbr/\u003e12. Wide of start of the daily mission status briefing\u003cbr/\u003e13. SOUNDBITE: (English) Royce Renfrew, Lead Space Station Flight Director:\u003cbr/\u003e\"First of all, we announced to the crew that we will add an additional plus one dock day to the mission.\"\u003cbr/\u003eAbove Earth - 24 February 2011\u003cbr/\u003e14. Camera mounted on a solid rocket booster shows ground as Discovery launches\u003cbr/\u003e15. Solid rocket booster separates from main fuel tank and Discovery minutes after launch\u003cbr/\u003e16. Solid rocket booster spins as it descends back to Earth\u003cbr/\u003e17. Solid rocket booster splashes down into ocean\u003cbr/\u003eThe 12 astronauts on the orbiting shuttle-station complex had to explain to a higher authority Thursday why they hadn't yet unpacked R2, the first humanoid robot in space.\u003cbr/\u003eIn a phone call to the two crews, President Barack Obama congratulated them for their joint mission and made note of shuttle Discovery's final flight.\u003cbr/\u003eThen he went straight to the robot matter.\u003cbr/\u003e\"I understand that you guys have a new crew member, this R2 robot,\" Obama said from the Oval Office.\u003cbr/\u003eDiscovery's commander, Steven Lindsey, explained that the astronauts had pulled the robot out of the newly installed storage unit but had yet to remove the packing foam around the humanoid.\u003cbr/\u003e\"He's still in packing foam?\" Obama asked with a laugh. \"That's a shame, man. Come on guys, unpack the guy. He flew all that way and you guys aren't unpacking him?\"\u003cbr/\u003eLindsey said the robot, officially known as Robonaut 2, has been encased in foam for months.\u003cbr/\u003e\"Every once in a while, we hear kind of some scratching sounds from inside and maybe a 'let me out, let me out.' \"\u003cbr/\u003eAfter the call, flight director Royce Renfrew said NASA would stick to its plans to keep Robonaut boxed up on the International Space Station until long after Discovery departs with its crew of six.\u003cbr/\u003eR2 was designed to be an astronaut helper, taking care of simple, monotonous chores.\u003cbr/\u003eIts arrival at the space station was delayed four months because of Discovery's prolonged grounding.\u003cbr/\u003eOn Thursday, NASA managers added a 13th day to Discovery's mission, which already had been stretched earlier in the week to 12.\u003cbr/\u003eLindsey said that the extra two days means Discovery will have spent 365 days in space, over 39 missions, by the time landing day comes around next Wednesday. \u003cbr/\u003eNASA's oldest shuttle will be retired once it returns to Earth and sent to a museum. \u003cbr/\u003eThe same fate awaits the two other shuttles, Endeavour, due to make its farewell flight in April, and Atlantis, which will close out NASA's 30-year shuttle program this summer.\u003cbr/\u003eEndeavour will be commanded by Mark Kelly, the identical twin brother of the space station's commander, Scott Kelly. \u003cbr/\u003eMark Kelly is married to Democrat Representative Gabrielle Giffords, who is recovering at a Houston hospital from a gunshot wound to the head.\u003cbr/\u003eOn Thursday, NASA released some new video of Discovery's launch taken by a camera mounted to one of two solid rocket booster.\u003cbr/\u003eThe boosters detach from the shuttle several minutes after take-off once the fuel inside them has been used up.  \u003cbr/\u003eThey fall back to Earth and splash down in ocean for NASA to retrieve 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